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a number of movies to remind everyone that there are films other than bond. we have my little sister, which is an intense swiss drama. we have a fever dream, a very strange movie. how much is real? and everyone's favourite ghoul family are back, addams family 2. now, i like the sound of the opening film — i haven't seen it. tell us about it. so my little sister. it was was switzerland's entry for the 93rd academy awards. a story of — nina hoss and lars eidinger are lisa and sven. they are twins. she is a writer, he's an actor — a stage actor — he was until he got a diagnosis for cancer and he's being treated for cancer and while that's happened, of course, his life has gone on hold. crucially, so has hers because they are bonded and she has basically dedicated all her time and energy to looking after him. here's a clip. 0k.

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so, not a car chase, not an exploding helicopter in sight, but really powerful and i'll tell you why. one of my favourite critics, roger ebert, the american critic, said that cinema is a machine for creating empathy, and i actually think this is one of the things that this film does. you get to know these characters, you believe in their situation, you believe in the bond between them. and as you saw i think in that scene, it's a long, extended take, it feels — it doesn't feel like there's a lot of acting going on. it feels like you're watching people living life normally and naturally, going through the kind of crisis that people go through. and the thing that i really loved about this is i felt that i knew these people, i felt that i understand their circumstances — even though they are very different to my circumstances — and i was really reminded all the way through of that thing about, you know, cinema when it's at its best makes you empathise with other people, and i thought this did it brilliantly and it's very low—key, very gentle —

it's not a histrionic film, although there are really sort of tough, emotional things going on. the other thing that is really smart is you find out about these characters' back stories not because they tell you, but you just, you know, action is character — you look at them and you observe them and you get to know them. i thought it was really good. i think you'll like it. i think it's a really good film. it's called my little sister. and with a main character diagnosed with cancer, it's not deliberately weepy or pulling at the heartstrings? no, it's — what it's dealing is very difficult subject matter, and it's dealing with, you know, grief and angst and all that stuff, but it's doing it in a way which is profoundly humanist — in the best sense of the word humanist. you know, it is about, as i said, empathising with other people. i really liked it. yes, 0k. fever dream. yes, ok, so peruvian director, argentine writer, shot in chile, set in argentina, chilean—american—spanish co—production, existing somewhere between one world and another. as the title suggests — as the english title suggests — it's a very heady concoction. the story is a mother becomes worried about her daughter because herfriend tells her a terrifying story about her son.

now, how much of any of this is true? how much of it is she being dragged into some strange paranoid delusion? the film appears to play out as — you an interior monologue, when somebody�*s talking? — this is almost an interior dialogue. there are two voices there. and the thing i really liked about it is you can either go 0k, it's about motherhood. the director said it's about the love and fear surrounding motherhood through a complex feminist prism. or you can say it's about poison and despoliation of the land. or you could say it's a horror movie about the migration of souls. or you can do what i did, which is go "i don't really know what this is about". but i love it. i love the way it looks. i love the way it sounds. it's got a fantastic score by natalie holt. and it was a film that i came out of — you know sometimes people come out of films, they go "i was really annoyed because i do not understand it"? i came out of this thinking "i really like the fact that i'm still not quite sure what it was about". it was very haunting, very tactile.

you know, you felt — you could feel the environment and the music is absolutely wonderful. really don't know what's going on but i enjoyed it very much. i love that! "i don't know what is going on but i enjoyed it." i liked it! does the world need another addams family film? mark? well, the makers of the addams family 2 certainly think so! so this is an animated sequel. so the story is — it's a convoluted set—up. wednesday becomes convinced that the addamses are not actually her family, so they have to go on a family road trip. the real reason they go on a family road trip is hey, it's a sequel! and in sequels, families go on road trips! here's a clip. rooster crows. come on, kids! feast your eyes on the old addams camper! thing's been fixing it up. oh, it's a hybrid — half car, half eyesore! mother, father, this. is cruel, even for you. lurch groans.

that's the spirit, lurch! screaming. let's go, wednesday. it's time for some family bonding, whether you like it or not. you see, wednesday, this trip will bring the addams family closer than ever before. or there will be no survivors. imean... is it funny, ever? it's all right. i mean — well, look — it's the addams family, ok, so of course there are things in it that are funny, because that whole idea of the, you know, the family that's kind of a mirror image of the — you know, it's a funny idea. and there is nothing here that i think we've seen done before or better in the comic strip or in the tv series or in the live—action movies — which came out when i was starting out in this job — so there's nothing in it that's original. there are a couple of things that are funny just because the addams family's upside—down, you know, that kind of topsy—turvy world is kind of funny. there's a star—studded cast —

oscar isaac, charlize theron, chloe grace moretz — but it did feel like ok — the minute i came out of it, i couldn't remember anything about it at all and this — it was only four days away — four days ago and i had to read my notes of when i was watching it because i thought "i can't"... ah, that's quite telling! it's just — it's just some addams family. right. so it's not terrible, it's just — it is remarkably unremarkable. 0k. ok, well, best out this week. yes. we know what that is! so, now, i talked about bond last week and i danced around the plot points. so you've now seen it. yes. 0k. and we had a good time. we had a good time — no plot spoilers — but we enjoyed it. 0k. the two other members of my party thought that there wasn't a vintage villain — that was their observation, as people who are very steeped in bond. yes. i — one of the things i think about that is is there is an old kind of myth which is that bond movies are only as good as their villain. that's not true.

i think the thing about this is it is one of the bond movies that's actually about bond. it's not about the villain, it is about him, in the same way that on her majesty's secret service is about him and, in fact, in the same way that the timothy dalton movies are about him. i really like it. it has proved quite divisive. the people — there are some people i know who really don't like it because they think that it breaks bond rules. ah! but i like that about it. did you find yourself swept up in it? for the most part, yes — and the thing i liked the most was that there were a few flashes of humour. i love that. yeah, yeah. i don't — i want my bond to say something a little bit caustic or say something with a bit of glint in his eye. 0k. so, you want sean connery, roger moore? roger moore, yeah, i'm afraid. 0k. i know people won't all agree with that, but... well, i think this isn't a roger moore bond but there is something with the gadget stuff. there is a few flashes — i laughed a couple of times — that's good. there are some gags in there but it is a more serious bond. you know, i still think daniel craig is still my favourite bond.

i think he's made who's made — he's made role his own, and also, his films have an arc. they kind of do have — it's a self—contained bloc of bond movies, which you cannot really say about anybody else. i mean, obviously connery started it and i still have a fondness for george lazenby. but they are a compact unit — and i — you know, it's long, but i kind of felt that it earned it in the end. and i thought it got away with the length, actually, because i was a little nervous going in, thinking "oh, two and three—quarter hours!" but actually, they totally got away with it. it's always the rule — if you're going to be longer than 2001, you better have a really good reason. we enjoyed it. we all enjoyed it. and definitely worth seeing. dvd, streaming, what else is around this week? dvd. deerskin. so this is — how to describe this? this is a story... it sounds mad. it is, but in a very good way. so it's the story of a who man falls in love with a deerskin jacket and that turns him into a serial killer. and the best way to describe it is it's somewhere between that weird belgian black comedy man bites and dog and peter strickland's movie in fabric. great performances

from jean dujardin who everyone remembers from... the artist, yes! which was such a brilliant performance. yes. and adele haenel, who is, you know, actually wonderful. it's tonally very odd, but i have to say at the moment, with something as big as a bond movie in cinemas, i like the idea that there are these other things that are tonally strange. like, i was talking about fever dream before i'm still not sure with — i mean, i really did enjoy deerskin and i watched it again, it's just coming out on blu—ray. i like it. thanks very much, mark. see you next week. and enjoy your cinema—going whatever you choose to go and see. see you next time. bye— bye. hello. for many of you sunday is would be quite a pleasant day to get out there and enjoy those changing autumn colours. most parts of the country should be dry, fair bit of sunshine as well who have been more clout in the south compared with what we had on saturday afternoon and for all of the little bit fresher. my gear that we had has

been swept away, this court from pushing its way southward in eastwards allowing temperatures to drop into the quite pleasant out there but will be cooler first thing without sunshine overhead, temperatures down into single figures in a cool start to the far southeast bree could see morning sunshine. both areas mist and fog what fresher air sitting across central and southern parts of england and wales. patchy or light rain and drizzle first in the morning, that should clear over the far east of kent in the afternoon and sunny spells, light winds for the vast majority. if you heavy showers towards the north we will see the strongest of the winds gusting a0 mph there. it the sunshine and south not as muggy and humid equivalents that son is on your back should still feel quite pleasant. as we go into the evening and overnight tickets and the monday clear skies around for you mist and fog pages but most will be clear and dry. and even cooler night to take us into the start of the new week.

these are the city centre temperatures in rural areas to be down at a lower single figures for one or two. if you go to the new week on the site the cooler note i will compare what we had recently but most will be dry. the exception to the dry story about apache rain here and we could just see some of that at times getting to northern england. more cloud half of the country and the best of the sunshine. temperatures dropping just a little bit especially after those cooler nights. high—pressure close by but not quite with us. he loves us for the front to push its way south, introducing a lot more cloud across part of northern and eastern england for tuesday one or two spots of rain or showers with that, but most places will be dry. still some sunny spells around, feeling colder on this eastern coasts in the shelter to the west where you get any sunny spells it should still feel quite pleasant. as we go through the rest of the week most lists will stay dry, temperatures in the mid teens and chances some rain into the north as we go into next weekend. see you soon.

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